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regrettable, a.|rɪˈgrɛtəb(ə)l|
Also 7 regreet-, regreat-, 9 regretable.
[a. F. regrettable, † regretable: see regret v. and -able.]
Deserving of, calling for, regret: a. of occurrences, actions, facts, etc. (Common in recent use.)
1603Florio Montaigne iii. ix. 586, I have seene some..hate their health because it was not regreetable. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xlviii. 389 The loss of Osyris was not so regreatable in Isis. 1832Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 52 The fact of their existence is not the less certain and regretable. 1867Visct. Strangford Selection (1869) I. 118 It is, therefore, all the more regrettable to come upon the traces of their vitality in French opinion. 1889Times 31 Aug. 5/1 These raids are very regrettable.
b. of what is lost or no longer exists. rare.
1835Tait's Mag. II. 454 The custom, we suspect, was one of the few regrettable observances of the feudal era. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (1873) §33 Our loss of this most regrettable old pronoun [man].
Hence reˈgrettably adv.; reˈgrettableness.
1866Pall Mall G. No. 379. 1349/2 As regrettably obvious as ever. 1896Naturalist 50 The writer's correspondence with him (regrettably, yet naturally)..ceased. 1913Eng. Hist. Rev. July 555 The regrettableness of the lapses from what might have been. |